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the church, which is in the shape of a Latin cross, with its 

 smaller chapels branching off the east sides of the arms or 

 transepts. In the south transept we have the remains of a 

 winding stair, communicating directly with the dormitories, 

 which ranged themselves southward over the sacristy, chapter- 

 house, and calif actory, which compartments are plainly seen 

 by the remains of their walls, now only a few feet high. The 

 chapter-house has an especial interest, and was a well- 

 proportioned room of thirty-seven feet long by twenty-eight 

 feet wide, being divided into bays by two rows of three 

 columns each, which supported a ceiling of groined vaulting; 

 all the bases of these columns remain in situ, while many 

 stones of well-preserved groins are to be found alongside them. 

 The chapter-house was divided from the dayroom by a slype 

 or passage. The dayroom must have been " ceiled " like the 

 chapter-house, and it ends the range of buildings on the east 

 side, and branching from it at right angles we come to the 

 kitchen and the refectory, which close the south side of the 

 garth. The refectory was a noble, lofty hall, and still retains 

 its stately group of three lancet windows. On the west side 

 of the refectory is a narrow stair in the thickness of the wall, 

 leading to the pulpit, which projected like an oriel from the 

 wall into the room, and which was invariably occupied by one 

 of the Order, who read the Scriptures while his brethren 

 indulged in their frugal fare. The buildings, which at one 

 time enclosed the west side of the garth, have now 

 disappeared. Here, as in other houses of the Order, were 

 placed the buttery, the almonry, the gatehouse, and the 

 guests' house. The Abbey flourished till towards the middle 

 of the sixteenth century, the last record we have of the 

 establishment in its entirety being dated 1541, when John 

 Cassels was abbot. Two years later the place which for three 

 centuries and a half had sheltered the austere and white- 

 cassocked Cistercian monks was derelict, and there can be no 

 doubt that the Abbey shared, at the hands of Sir Brian 

 MThelim O'Neill thirty years later, the fate of the neigh- 

 bouring abbeys of Bangor, Movilla, and Comber; its only 



